Funeral Fruit Salad

(from Val Ducas)

My Blessings on Burlington Bible (B on B) study group has one gal in it who we pray will answer a lot of questions every week. We simply love to hear her talk. She’s from the western most city of Kentucky, near Tennessee, called Hickman. Her name is Val. Her one-syllable words have two or more, and her two to three syllable words, well, there’s just no tellin’. She’s sweet and hilarious all at once.

Each Fall and Spring when we dismiss either for Christmas or Summer, we have a Grand Finale Brunch. We each bring a dish and each meal is unique, usually landing us with some new, fun and delicious recipes to try.

Val brought this fruit salad to one of our brunches and I fell in love with it. I asked her what it was and she very matter of factly said, “Funeral Fruit Salad.”

I said, “And why, pray tell, is it called that?”

To which she replied, “Because I always take it to the funeral home when someone dies.” Of course she does.

I’ve made this dish for our family and for some friends and they all rave over it. I s’pose I should change the name tho’….

Check this out:

Ingredients:
1 can peach pie filling
2 cans of mandarin oranges, drained
1 can of diced pineapple, drained
1 package of frozen strawberries (thawed and drained)
Slice a couple of bananas at the last minute.
2 Tablespoons of sugar
2 Tablespoons of lemon juice.

Directions:

• Mix these ingredients in a large bowl and place in the frig.

• Serve when you’re ready!

YUM…